Anger is an
“A-particle”, an invisible particle that uses one energy unit, but with hidden
trick to it. Science says “Energy is neither created nor destroyed.” It is
transformed.
Let’s take this assertion
as true. Because every wave in the ocean creates a corresponding dip. The
breeze blows the treetop to one side and when it subsides, the treetop goes
back to its original position. Every action has its reaction, they say. And
every action needs energy to work. The sun sends its quota of energy to the
Earth and here it is distributed. The solar power striking Earth today, from Worldometers,
is above 2.4 trillion MWh at 8 o’clock in the evening. With our current world
population of over 7.3 billion people, that’s 334 MWh of energy for each person
and his or her environment. Obviating plant life, marine life and animal life, let’s
look at human life only. Theoretically let’s say we have 100 “energy units” (of
whatever size) ready to be used for our day. These 100 “energy units”
correspond to my daily fuel. What is energy used for? For doing work, they say.
What kind of work? This is what we have to reason out. For our instinctive
processes, let’s leave aside a daily quota of 20 units. This is used below human
awareness, on the level of automatic energy only, and just keeps our bodies
going. So we are left with 80 energy particles for the day for our more
sensitive emotional and intellectual use, and for energy called “conscious”
energy, or human awareness, or simply “presence”.
We now take three
types of persons, based on character, as described by the three gunas,
or forces. This comes from some of the oldest-known ancient wisdom in the
world, the Vedas and Gita, so it is good enough for our purposes – better than many
– but of course they could be complemented by other more modern classifications,
as long as they include the concept of various levels of the psyche,
from more outward to more inward, or purer to coarser, and differentiate
between qualities of mind, and corresponding types of energies.
Case 1: The Tamas
person, or tamasic character, is described as follows:
Tamas is born of ‘ignorance’. Under this influence man’s
intellectual capacity to discriminate between right and wrong is adversely affected.
A Tamasic person focuses all his interest and attention
upon himself/herself. All his/her actions and perceptions, emotions and
thoughts are directed only to the welfare of himself/herself. But since the
world is not designed to cater to any particular individual, these demands
remain unfulfilled. The tamasic mind is never at rest. It is always
discontented and disturbed. There is no consistency of purpose, brilliance of
thought, tenderness of emotion or nobility of action.
Defining Traits:
- Loves to work…and work hard.
- Doing labour and physical work are the key
features of Tamasic people.
- Follows inertia – and soon loses interest
in any activity.
- Theoretical, more concerned with what is
going on in his/her head than what is happening around him/her.
- Frustrated when faced with facts and
details.
- Stressed by invasion of personal space.
- “I don’t care what happens to anybody,
including myself”.
This is a worst-case
scenario. Case 1: The Tamas person.
During the day,
energy units are used for processes such as the following:
Fear
|
15
|
Cruelty
|
5
|
Deceit
|
5
|
Anger
|
10
|
Nervousness
|
8
|
Maliciousness
|
6
|
Lust
|
10
|
Pride
|
8
|
Greed
|
3
|
TOTAL
|
70
|
Remainder
|
10
|
70 units –
negative uses
10 units–
positive uses
The actual
numbers are not relevant, because the possible variations are infinite. The
total and the “remainder amount” are relevant.
The work done
today by this person has used up or transformed energy for the distribution of
the following: 70 units in relation to himself, and mostly likely to others, in
which energy has been used for processing and distributing fear, cruelty,
deceit, anger, nervousness, maliciousness, lust, pride and greed on the planet.
These 70 particles have been distributed to (probably) ALL THE PERSONS with whom
this Case 1 has been interacting throughout the day. The effect of these
particles in these other persons, assuming they are the same basic kind of
person as the Subject, is to stimulate the same kind of energy use in them, ie,
the negative qualities have been transmitted to others, and these others will
then process them and transmit them in turn to yet others, creating an
exponential effect of negativeness, or a spiralling effect that cannot change
until someone stops it or changes it. Case 1 complains to Case 2, who then
interacts with Case 3 and does the same, who in turn transmits similar
negativity to Case 4, 5 6, etc. So much for the outward-facing world.
In the
inward-facing world, that is, in Case 1’s mind itself, these 70 energy
units have been used to reinforce patterns of character (habits) that use this kind
of energy. Fear, cruelty, deceit, anger, etc. have been reinforced in Case 1’s
mind, so this energy has been utilised in “remaining the same”. Remaining the
same means utilising the same personality or Ego, reinforcing the same Ego, and
this Ego has not been analysed, rationalised, studied or investigated in any
way, as tamasics don’t usually do that. Most of this work is below the level of
consciousness, using only the automatic and sensitive energies. Energy has been
used to perpetuate a “fictional” personal Ego, but transmitting “real”
negativity.
In the animals,
thought cannot become Intellect or Reason. The animals are limited to instinctual
and emotional behaviour. We don’t have to analyse the animals, because animals
are guided by Nature and instinct does all the work. They are as they are, as
Nature makes them, fixed in definite patterns. But in Man, there is a
possibility of Intellect, so if it is not used, as in tamasics, base
human instinct takes over and the experience is under the influence of Unconsciousness
and Non-Intellect. The 10 energy particles used for positive thoughts or
actions – say this tamasic person has a wife and child and he loves and shows
kindness to them– are cancelled out by the 70 negative thoughts. This person is
a net negator of Intellect, and uses energy in a negative way.
Case 1’s Karmic
Burden
Here is the
hidden trick. Each of Case 1’s “energy units” is pre-organised to carry a
terrible burden. Each particle has a “tracer”, much like the code in our DNA,
so it can always be traced back to the original Emitter. This is the karmic
effect of emission and transmission of energy units.
Each time an energy
unit is used to reinforce Ego in non-virtuous or negative behaviour, it affects
both the Emitter and possibly others. In the Emitter it fuels further
negativity in the mind. In other Tamasic or other characters it fuels further
negativity. And the tracer effect means that this negativity is identified
as coming from the Case 1 Emitter and can be traced back to him. The karmic
system is set up with this trick, and so negativity tends to increase as it is
transmitted, but it is also collected in a storehouse or file* of traceable
negative particles, which builds up and has to be returned at some point to
the original Emitter – like a loan of energy units which has to be paid back,
with the “interest” being the consequences caused by the original energy unit
in spiralling into additional negativity due to Case 1’s initial negativeness.
This is only cancelled out by one’s own or somebody else’s positivity,
as purported by the ritual of confession in a Catholic church, say for the absolution
of sins. This is the danger for the Tamasic character: everything he does can
be traced back to him and eventually returns to him in the form of more negativity,
which remains as a charge pending review and cancellation. A loan to be paid
back, accruing interest.
* If Google can store somewhere between
10-15 exabytes of data, and man only generally imitates what the universe can
do, it is not inconceivable that a planetary “karma file” could store all coded
data on human behaviour, making every single human thought and action
significant for a person’s life. We think in finite terms, but the universe
operates in infinity and eternity, so why could this not be true?
Case 2: The Rajas
person, or rajasic character, is described as follows:
When Rajas influence dominates, there is desire for
acquisition of things and attachment to things acquired already. The person
normally remains in a stable equilibrium. But when he/she looks at an object of
desire the equilibrium is disturbed and the mind is filled with ‘passion’
expressing in a million different urges, desires, emotions and feelings.
Such an individual can never keep quiet, but must
necessarily act on endlessly earning and spending, racing and procuring,
procreating and protecting, and thirsting for more and more. He/she is filled
with joys of success and involved in the sorrows of failures.
Defining Traits
- One who acts – energetic, restless and aggressive.
- One who organises people to work together.
- Strength is the key feature of Rajasic
people.
- Initiative and Creativity, Energetic Doer,
Takes charge of events, Diversified interests, Loves to co-ordinate and
supervise people, A control freak.
- Risk of burning out, Hypersensitive,
Tendency for emotional outburst or withdrawal and depression.
- Salient Characteristics: Hurry and Worry.
- Often looked upon as an achiever “They are
like steamrollers, rolling relentlessly over any obstacle in their way.”
This is the
second-worst-case scenario. Case 2: The Rajas person.
Fear
|
10
|
Cruelty
|
5
|
Deceit
|
6
|
Anger
|
8
|
Nervousness
|
8
|
Maliciousness
|
6
|
Lust
|
5
|
Pride
|
8
|
Greed
|
4
|
TOTAL
|
60
|
Rest
|
20
|
60 units –
negative uses
20 units –
positive uses
The work done
today by this person has used up or transformed energy for the distribution of
the following: 60 particles in relation to himself and mostly like to others in
which energy has been used for the distribution of fear, cruelty, deceit,
anger, nervousness, maliciousness, lust, pride and greed on the Earth.
Distribution: 60
particles to self and others, same as above.
In Case 2’s mind,
these 60 particles have been used to reinforce patterns of character (habits),
same as above.
This person is also
a net negator of Intellect. His 20 positives slightly reduce his karmic
burden, but it is a lost cause.
KARMIC BURDEN
60 negative
points.
20 positive
points.
The Karmic burden
is still not in this person’s favour, nor does it help the world. It increases
negativity.
Case 3: The
Sattwic person,
or Sattwic character, is described as follows:
Under the Sattvic influence the mind is
steady, free from agitations and inertia. Mind experiences peace and happiness,
better understanding and intellectual comprehension. It describes the limits of
‘goodness’ though gives freedom from agitation.
Thus, whenever a given mind is in an
inspiring and creative mood it is capable of vast knowing and deep
understanding. A true scientist, working self-dedicatedly in his laboratory; a
painter working at his canvas; martyrs facing cruel persecution, politicians
suffering long years in jail for standing up to their convictions are all examples
of individuals inspired by their creative mind.
Defining Traits:
- Works in harmony with the environment
- Creativeness is the key feature of Sattvic
people.
- Hardworking and Conscientious, Efficient
and Systematic, Respect for others, Calmness with quiet confidence, Dependable
- Living in the present – ready for whatever comes.
- Your ‘will’ is controlling your ‘desires’.
(Will is the steering and brake, and the
desire is the accelerator).
But still, this
is an ideal, so let us say our Sattwic character is still on the way to
becoming Sattwic and transmits energy in the following way:
Fear
|
2
|
Cruelty
|
2
|
Deceit
|
2
|
Anger
|
4
|
Nervousness
|
4
|
Maliciousness
|
4
|
Lust
|
4
|
Pride
|
6
|
Greed
|
2
|
TOTAL
|
30
|
Rest
|
50
|
30 units –
negative uses
50 units –
positive uses
The work done
today by this person has used up or transformed energy for the distribution of
the following: 30 particles in relation to himself and mostly like to others in
which energy has been used for the distribution of fear, cruelty, deceit,
anger, nervousness, maliciousness, lust, pride and greed on the Earth, because
his hold on the mind and on the virtues is not yet firm.
But 50 particles have
been distributed to others in a positive way. The energy has been used as
follows: Given similar situations as in the Tamasic and Rajasic characters
above for today, the Sattwic emitted 50 positives to others and to him/herself.
Only 30 were lost due to imperfect application of the virtues, signifying only
lack of self-knowledge, lapses of unconsciousness, lack of awareness, etc. Also
deeply ingrained character traits which have not yet been purified, etc.
This person is NOT
a net negator of Intellect. His/her karmic burden is lessened by giving out 50
positives and mistakenly giving out 30 negatives. Net increase 20.
But his 50
positives, duly traceable back to him/her, have produced perhaps another 20
positives in others, as in his daily transactions, fear has been met with
courage, cruelty with kindness, deceit by truthfulness, anger has been met with
indifference, nervousness with calm, maliciousness with compassion, lust or
desire with non-attachment, pride with self-effacement, greed with charity,
etc. In short, much negativity of redistributable energy has been put to
positive use.
So the Sattwic is
a mind-cleaner, both for him/herself and for others and the world, and the
effect of all omissions and commissions (unintended or unwanted emission of
negative particles) is being taken care of and cancelled out, producing an
excess for him/herself in the future and for others. This is effectively the
work of the purported Saints in religion, whose mere presence absolves the sins
of others and restores them to health or sanity or increases saintliness in
others, of course increasing said saintliness in him/herself (with Self being
understood as something real, and not a fictional personality self, called an “ego”).
KARMIC BURDEN
30 negative
points.
50 positive
points.
The Karmic burden
is NOW in this person’s favour, and it helps others and the world. It
increases positivity.
Energy used for
Anger
So let’s take
just one feature of this system and analyse it to see whether it is better
to become angry or not: think in anger, react in anger, express
anger and speak in anger and perhaps allow anger to turn into violence, and
hurt or kill someone. Of course practically all would agree that the final
result, hurting and killing, is bad. This would be called “mismanaged anger”, because
modern thinking, despite anger always having been classified as a vice or a sin
in religions and philosophical systems of the past, now tends to justify anger as
a “normal human emotion”. But where does this anger come from, apart from being
a “normal” conditioned response? The first instance is the impression in the
mind, and that is a “thought”. Where does the angry thought come from?
Anger is defined
as a negative reaction to a desire, which is the primary thought: “When a man’s
desire is not gratified and when one stands in the way of its fulfilment, a man
can interpret this as an offense to his perception of “self”, and allow anger
to move him. The desire gets transmuted into anger. When one is under the sway
of anger, he/she will commit all sorts of sinful deeds. He loses his
memory; his understanding becomes clouded; and his intellect gets perverted.” Of
course if one does not know one’s desires, and they are thwarted, and anger
ensures, it is already too late. The psychology of the possible interaction is
as follows.
X and Y
(Tamas/Rajas to Tamas/Rajas)
X is “angry”. He
is expressing a “normal human emotion”. X speaks an angry word and goes on to
commit an angry action towards Y. In our view, a unit (or units!) of energy is/are
being used to trigger a “negative anger particle”, an A-particle in X’s mind, which
is being transmitted to his environment. Y is also a “normal human being”. His mind
is identified with his own ego, which has evolved due to past conditioning,
without much thought or philosophy or religion, and due to his ingrained
behaviour patterns. The A-particle produces in Y this wave of desire that this
“word” or “action” should not be the WAY IT IS. Thus Y uses one or
various energy units to produce a thought in his mind, thinking, “How dare
he say such a thing to me?” “Why is this action being done to me?” Or perhaps
it is done to others, which also provokes Y. The desire that this should not
be done, remaining unfulfilled, becomes “anger”, and this anger is
unleashed on the speaker or doer. An A-particle from X is met with another
A-particle from Y, or more A-particles if the situation spirals out of control.
Anger has been transmitted and as a response, anger has been returned.
Depending on the actual expenditure – this we cannot gauge – maybe 1 anger
particle has been emitted and 3 have been returned. This is a net increase in
anger particles in the world. Energy units have been expended to produce and
transmit Anger. Emitter and receiver may share the sum total of these
traceable Anger particles or they may only be responsible for their own, but
they have both contributed to an increase in the amount of Anger in the world. Energy
has been expended to produce BAD work.
X and Z (Tamas/Rajas
to Sattwic)
X is “angry”. An
angry word is pronounced or an angry action is done by X which affects the mind
of Z, who is an aspiring Sattwic character. X uses a unit of energy to produce
a negative anger particle, ready for transmission. But Z’s mind, accustomed to
practising virtues and not at that moment solely identified with his own small ego,
recognises other factors involved and checks or stops the process with a
faculty that stands above the “ego”, not using automatic or sensitive energy to
activate past conditioning or habit, but using a more conscious (higher-grade)
energy, thinking along these lines: perhaps X is already upset about something
else, perhaps X’s digestion is bad, maybe X is known to have a complaining
nature in any case and therefore his words must be taken with a pinch of salt,
or with patience. Or, yes, the action does affect Z physically – X has taken his
iPhone, X has given him a mean look, or has asked for charity and not getting
any says that Z is “bad”. Or X has shouted at Z and actually hit him because he
has mistaken him for X’s spouse’s secret lover, etc. In whatever case, the
anger particle being transmitted is detained, inspected, analysed (given
awareness of present and sufficient determinative faculty) and it is… cancelled
out. Not returned to sender as is; no, that would not be kind, or virtuous.
It is taken in, accepted, put in the right place – the furnace of the mind –
into the fires of sacrifice – and the energy is transmuted into a positive
particle. It does not produce an automatic wave of desire or anger which can
evolve into more and more anger. It is cleansed, purified and then it is neatly
returned to the sender as a gift of charity or forgiveness. In this
situation, there is a net increase of Gentleness in the world. Traceability allows
it to be returned to Z at some time. Since the transmutation has Z’s label on
it, at some point in time, Gentleness will also come back to Z. Z has done his work
properly. And in the world there has been a net increase in GOODNESS. An
energy unit has been used to produce GOOD work.
This presupposes
all the theories of the Creation of the world and that the Creator saw that the
world was GOOD. And that is probably what any Creator of any Thing would want.
If I, as creator, make something I deem to be GOOD in the beginning, I would
like to see that GOODNESS increased, because I know that there will always be
an automatic negative entropy or decrease of GOODNESS due to the limitations of
time and space. So any increase in GOODNESS is what I as creator really want.
Everyone is satisfied. The original Emitter of anger receives good, the
Transmuter of anger makes it good, the GOODNESS of the good increases and helps
decrease what will naturally happen in time and space anyway – BADNESS. So 7.3
billion people x 334 MWh = 2,4382E+15 MWh of energy for either GOOD or bad. One
has to choose. And that is the reason for returning GOOD for bad.
(* Excuses not to
put this into practise should be dealt with in a further study.)
